I think the bigger issue is one of perceived truth. Their exist a click of people that seems to belive society in its entirety is political theatre, the so called big government.
That is the only way I have been able to rationalise the belief that banning abortion, vaccines, or what have you could classify as small government.
@Lyle @futurebird I have started to wonder if the imbalance between the perceived safety of car users, and the actual safety of other road users isn't the causes of more harm than the safety system prevents.
For every car user we save; how many other road/street user do we kill or maim?
American companies announce only 1,494 new jobs in August, the lowest for the month since 2009, per Bloomberg.
Layoffs surged 39% to 85,979.
And the US now has more unemployed than job openings for the first time since April 2021.
You don’t realize how weak the economy is.
Don’t quit your job. Now is not the time.
If you lose your job, it will to take a long time to find another one.
Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed by just staying forever with words I crave to do non-mental, only physical hands on stuff
Don't you get tired of just processing endless streams of words, concepts, and abstract ideas.
Where your brain is essentially saying: I need to feel and move and build something real, not just manipulate symbols!
Elev frias för våldtäkt på skoltoalett: ”Tjatsex inte straffbart” -> https://www.dn.se/sverige/elev-frias-for-valdtakt-pa-skoltoalett-tjatsex-inte-straffbart/
Ah, good question!
One of several short answers is that, e.g., if these funders/countries stop fduning legacy journals, these journals will eventually go bankrupt and then ORE is their replacement.
An attempt at a longer answer is in our paper:
Tidöpartierna kommer att sänka dansbandsmomsen -> https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9037817
@tinker automation bias, this is why I don't want "my" identity in a publicly accessible data base.
This helps explain why it's so hard to automate farm labor!
It's not that it's too hard to make a robot pick crops.
It's that humans are really, REALLY good at it. It's hard to make a robot that's BETTER at it than people.
Twitter's new encrypted DM system stores your private key material on Twitter-owned services, protected with nothing more than a 4-digit PIN. If hostile, or if legally compelled to, Twitter could easily decrypt all your messages. It's also MITMable and doesn't secure metadata. Use Signal.
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